Region: Spain

A Spanish contractor is facing a bid to enforce an ICC award issued in a US$158 million arbitration over a Chilean refinery upgrade – as it settles a dispute with an Algerian state entity over a power plant project.

22 April 2025

An ICSID committee has upheld an award requiring Venezuela to pay US$3 billion to a Spanish investor for expropriating an agribusiness group.

14 April 2025

The European Commission has declared that an ICSID award ordering Spain to pay €101 million plus interest to investors for changes to renewable energy subsidies constitutes illegal state aid. 

24 March 2025

The Arbitration and Mediation Centre of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce, or CAM Santiago, has agreed to send its international cases to the Madrid International Arbitration Centre-Iberoamerican Arbitration Centre (CIAM-CIAR). 

12 March 2025

A Samsung-led consortium has won €315 million in an ICC case against a Qatari state-owned company over a terminated contract to build two metro stations in Doha.

04 March 2025

Spanish electric utility Endesa has instructed counsel to defend it in a US$308 million price review arbitration brought under a long-term contract for supply of liquefied natural gas – months after defeating a US$650 million claim in a separate arbitration.  

03 March 2025

An engineering consortium led by Spain’s Sacyr says it has brought an arbitration against Uruguay over outstanding payments relating to a US$1.5 billion rail project.

25 February 2025

Calvin Hamilton, who died late last year aged 72, was a Guyanese-born practitioner who worked for nearly 30 years in Madrid and became a key figure in international arbitration in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean.

15 January 2025

Panama has agreed to satisfy a US$26.7 million ICSID award obtained by a US company over a cancelled mining concession, while settlement negotiations continue with another investor in a dispute over a construction project.

05 December 2024

A US appeals court has refused Spain’s request for a rehearing of its challenge to the enforcement of Energy Charter Treaty awards worth a combined €360 million plus interest in favour of renewable energy investors. 

04 December 2024